Month: April 2010

April 29, 2010

>List List

> That’s “List” as in a series of names or other items and “List” as in an area of combat (especially jousting tournaments). There’s been…
April 28, 2010

>Happy Birthday Bhikku!

> Today is Bhikku’s 8th Birthday! And it’s also exactly two weeks since the gall bladder surgery that saved his life. (For background, see…
April 24, 2010

>The New Yorker: "Edgemont Drive" by E.L. Doctorow

> Dialogue flood. This story, which otherwise has a conventional arc—and maybe that’s the reason Doctorow made this choice, in order to freshen it…
April 23, 2010

>New Issue: Waccamaw

>There’s a new issue of Waccamaw up, with fiction by Ethel Rohan, Edmund Sandoval, and others, poems, essays, and an interview with Padgett Powell.
April 22, 2010

>Bhikku update

> Bhikku is doing pretty well, considering what he’s been through. (See Pet Worries.) He’s made steady progress and his appetite has been good…
April 22, 2010

>Atlantic Surprise

> Remember when The Atlantic Monthly dumped their monthly fiction in favor of an annual summer fiction issue? And remember that the fiction issue…
April 21, 2010

>The New Yorker: "Prefiguration of Lalo Cura" by Roberto Bolaño

> The narrator is Lalo Cura, the son of a woman who acted in porn films in Colombia even while she was pregnant with…
April 18, 2010

>The Los Angeles Review: divergent, West Coast literature

> One thing I was able to do at AWP was to pick up my contributor copy of the new The Los Angeles Review:…
April 17, 2010

>Pet Worries

> This could be considered a sequel to my AWP Reports, I suppose. I got home from Denver on Sunday afternoon. On Monday morning…
April 15, 2010

>The Book of Fathers by Miklós Vámos

> The Book of FathersMiklós VámosOther Press 2009  While the point of this sprawling novel eludes me — is it that we should never…